SCIENCE OF CATS

More than 600 million claim residence in households across six continents ... and now they may have dethroned dogs as the most popular pet on earth. An exterminator, fierce hunter and favorite companion, aloof and affectionate at the same time, the cat leapt out of the wood and adopted us on its own terms thousands of years ago. But how did man and beast form their unconventional relationship?

Most unusual relationship Fum and Gebra

And you thought cats only ate birds?      Dinner?

Publicity Postcard for the Fight of the Century:  "That's what they called the epic fight in 1916 between Mr Jinxie, the American fighting cat, and the German dachsund, Ludwig von Breslau-Menken. In the cruel sport of animal fighting these two were the champions in the light weight category. Because of the the Great War and growing concerns by Humane Societies about these fights, it was held at a neutral site, Berne, Switzerland. Gamblers came in large numbers from the US and Germany. Animal Rights advocates showed up and began street protests outside the fight venue."

  TURBO CAT  ~ offensive weaponry from a 16th century German manuscript

County Animal Services have feral cats that will work for food.

Familiars and Familiar Spirits

Cat Discrimination

Why don’t you love me?

We’re just a week from Halloween, which means that owners of black cats across the country are starting to keep a nervous eye on their loving pets, lest they be subjected to holiday-inspired pranks. Around this time of year, says University of California, Berkeley, black cats “can be associated with bad luck and witches,” a prejudice that persists not just for a few months in the fall, but actually has important consequences year-round for the fates of these felines. People ascribe certain personality traits to cats of different colors, a bias that skews adoption rates and leaves some cats—particularly black ones—in the lurch.

Surveying cat owners, Mikel Delgado and colleagues found that people are “more likely to assign positive personality traits to orange cats and less favorable ones to white and tortoiseshell ones. Orange cats were largely regarded as friendly, white cats as aloof and tortoiseshell cats as intolerant.”

“What about black cats?”

Don’t be so fast to judge a cat by its color, study warns

CHAT WITH CATS 
"Give me the precious back!"

B L A C K   C A T S

Cary Grant's Daughter Pens Memoir of Her Legendary Father

Cary Grant   (1904–1986)

North by Northwest (1959)

Cary Grant Movies

tURNIER cLASSIC mOVIES, cARY gRANT

   Suzy,    A  French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.

Ultimate Cary Grant  
Poeskine:  "Cats always see more than any photographer"

"Of course they do"

THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING ANIMALS

WORKING ANIMALS
Ask scientists if animals do work, and they'll answer,
 "Of course they do."

WORKING DOGS

SERVICE DOGS

Cat at work

Exhibit honors hardworking, heroic animals

Celebrating Our Hard Working Animals on Labor Day!

Alaskan cat elebrates 15 years as Mayor

CUTE ANIMALS AT LABOR

Messy Beast:  Cats became domesticated through their ability to control vermin around grain stores. This happened around the same time in 2 widely separated locations, once in Egypt and once in India.
                            Top 10 Animals that Work Hard in Order to Survive
 The Importance of Constitutional Peasants

Anarcho-syndicalists regard the state as a profoundly anti-worker institution. They view the primary purpose of the state as being the defence of private property and therefore of economic, social and political privilege, even when such defence denies its citizens the ability to enjoy material independence and the social autonomy which springs from it
Cleaning Windows

Jonny Justice

Pits and pit mixes now make up anywhere from 

30 to 70 percent of dogs in shelters nationwide.

Jonny Justice, Rescue Pit Bull Terrier, Wins Top Spot and the Hearts of Voters

Top 5 Myths about Pit Bulls

How do you treat stray animals?

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot  Animal welfare activism

Friday quotes - Brigitte Bardot   Actress and Model, b.1934 

Paris, France   "Percentages are why I am rich"

"They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself."

"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"What does it mean, being a woman?"

"Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer."

"Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands."

 ...Jane Fonda...She readily admits that she allowed each of her three husbands to reinvent her, starting with Roger Vadim, the French film director who turned her into Barbarella, a sexy sci-fi secret agent, with an emphasis on sexy.

Following Brigette Bardot…

Filmology... Arguably film's first sex kitten, Brigitte Bardot grew up in a wealthy, conservative French Catholic family.

Voulez-vous danser avec moi?
Is Brigitte Bardot Bashing Islam? 
Brigitte Bardot, the actress and animal rights campaigner, has offered to take the place of the founder of the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group in prison.

BRIGETTE BARDOT YOU TUBE 

mother of invention